Posted on 06/27/2008 12:27:01 PM PDT by Red Badger
BUREAU TO STUDY IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT DENVER - Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies the environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years. Much of the 119 million surface acres of federally administered land in the West is ideal for solar energy, particularly in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada. Solar companies have filed more than 130 proposals with the Bureau of Land Management since 2005. They center on the companies' desires to lease public land to build solar plants, then sell the energy to utilities. According to the bureau, the applications, which cover more than 1 million acres, are for projects that have the potential to power more than 20 million homes. But the decision to freeze new solar proposals temporarily, reached late last month, has caused widespread concern in the alternative-energy industry, as fledgling solar companies must wait to see just as the demand for viable alternative energy is accelerating. "This could completely stunt the growth of the industry," said Holly Gordon, vice president for legislative and regulatory affairs for Ausra, a solar thermal energy company in Palo Alto. The manager of the bureau's environmental impact study, Linda Resseguie, said many factors must be considered when deciding whether to allow solar projects on the scale being proposed, among them the Advertisement impact of construction and transmission lines on native vegetation and wildlife.
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30 days is temporary. 2 years is not.
But this does affect me and my income. Constitution says something about necessary forts and shipyards. I don't think the FedGov has the Constitutional power to take over millions of acres and hold them.
We damn sure shouldn't need a Burro-for-land-management.
Jack asses.
/johnny
Wow. This industry may be in real trouble.
This isn't how America used to solve problems.
Surprise: ALL energy affects the environment, and re-directing it for our use affects the environment. COPE.
I wonder how many square feet of solar panels it would take to equal one nuclear power plant and the square feet it would take up.
Close the EPA.
Repeal the Endangered Species Act
Drill any place there is oil.
Build refineries.
Refine only one formulation of gasoline for each grade nation wide.
Build coal fired electric power plants.
Build nuclear powered electric power plants.
Drill Here Drill Now!
I think we ought to be building new Nukes too, that would take more pressure off the gas prices and not raise our food prices as a consequence.
“Enviromental impact studies” are jobs programs established for dumbasses who purchased college diplomas but are still dumber than a box of rocks.
Turn Death Valley into a giant solar collector!
Ha ha
Are they worried it will suck too much light out of the sky?
SPEWW!!!
GREEDY POWER-MONGERING TREASONOUS PUPPET MASTERS seem to have struck again.
LOL!!....
That’s not really the issue. They don’t give that much of a flip for the environment—that’s just a manipulative political tool.
Their determination is to CONTROL!!! CONTROL!!! CONTROL!!! THE SERFS though CENTRALIZED power schemes . . . electric, gasoline, natural gas . . . all.
Truth be told, the land they were going to build the magic solar power plants on was discovered to have massive deposits of upsadaisium.
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